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Housing
housing
Sept. 22, 2022
Unsurprisingly,
Dwell
Magazine is Now Selling Its Own Prefab ADUs
For
just
$389,000.
By
Diana Budds
the city politic
Sept. 11, 2022
New York’s Leaders Are Sleeping Through a Housing Emergency
The political response should reflect the size and speed of the worsening crisis. It hasn’t even come close.
By
Errol Louis
the city politic
Sept. 5, 2022
Why Are So Many of New York’s Basement Apartments Still Death Traps?
It’s been a year since floodwaters drowned 11 New Yorkers in their homes, but nothing has been done to stop it from happening again.
By
Errol Louis
housing
Sept. 1, 2022
Landlords Are Trying to Make ‘Tenantsplaining’ a Thing
Our housing providers are having a little fun.
By
Clio Chang
housing
Aug. 29, 2022
A Woman in the Bronx Fell Through Her Bathroom Floor
A new addition to your list of tenant nightmares.
By
Clio Chang
housing
Aug. 22, 2022
To Keep Its Ancient Equipment Going, NYCHA Makes Its Own Parts
With so many obsolete boilers and elevators out there, there’s no other way.
By
Felipe De La Hoz
housing
Aug. 11, 2022
Rat Infestation? Leaky Ceiling? Good Luck in Court
Tenants say judges are taking too long to order landlord repairs since the pandemic began.
By
Bryce Covert
the housing market
Aug. 11, 2022
Manhattan Rents Broke Another Record
Average rents reached more than $5000 in July.
By
Clio Chang
upstate
Aug. 2, 2022
Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent Control
The move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.
By
Clio Chang
housing
July 26, 2022
The Regulars Rooting for a Crash at Brooklyn’s Foreclosure Auctions
Hope springs eternal for the small-time hustler.
By
Molly Osberg
housing
June 29, 2022
Obama Blames Liberal NIMBYs for the Housing Crisis Too
At the American Institute of Architects’ 2022 convention, he criticized “bipartisan resistance” to affordable, mixed-income housing.
By
Diana Budds
the rent is too damn high
June 22, 2022
Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive
The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
By
Clio Chang
the housing market
June 9, 2022
Somehow, the Rental Market Is Only Getting Worse
Prepare for a hellish summer.
By
Clio Chang
housing
June 9, 2022
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches for Good Cause Eviction
Tenant activists released a swarm of the noisy bugs into an Albany courtroom.
By
Clio Chang
emergency housing
June 6, 2022
For Fire Victims, a Year of Bedbugs, Mold, and Takeout at the Airway Inn
The Jackson Heights tenants displaced by a major building fire are still waiting to return home.
By
Amir Khafagy
debt
June 1, 2022
A Long, Strange Year of Rent Relief
It was a tedious, administrative nightmare. It also (mostly) worked.
By
Clio Chang
semantics
June 1, 2022
The Landlords Embarrassed to Be Called Landlords
“I cringe when I hear it, and when I say it.”
By
Bridget Read
curbed glossary
May 25, 2022
The Apartment Mayor Is the Roommate Who Never Leaves
These long-term tenants can set your rent and tell you how long the buzzer’s really been broken.
By
Clio Chang
housing
May 4, 2022
Landlords Can Now Screen Your Pet’s ‘Credit Score’
And charge you accordingly.
By
Clio Chang
housing
Apr. 25, 2022
Housing Court Is Breaking
Watching the quiet chaos unfold in a Queens courtroom.
By
Bridget Read
housing
Apr. 18, 2022
More Luxury Developments Are Apparently Falling Apart
We are spotting a trend.
By
Clio Chang
street fights
Apr. 4, 2022
‘I’m Not Sure Whether I Wanted It to Go This Far’
A fight over garden-bed rotations and democratic living at one of the city’s most storied co-ops.
By
Clio Chang
housing
Apr. 1, 2022
The Cruel Theater of Encampment Sweeps
Adams’s task force cleared hundreds of sites. Five people accepted a bed.
By
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
housing
Mar. 31, 2022
Is This a Boat?
Miami officials say no.
By
Clio Chang
crime
Mar. 30, 2022
What Made the ‘MoMA Stabber’ Snap?
And why do so many people want the reason to be homelessness?
By
Bridget Read
housing
Mar. 24, 2022
How Airbnb Reinvented Itself As the World’s Crisis-Housing Provider
In times of disaster, from war in Ukraine to wildfires in California, the platform is hoping to become something closer to critical infrastructure.
By
Molly Osberg
bad landlords
Feb. 2, 2022
Can New York Really Ban a Nightmare Landlord From Real Estate?
Yes, and Raphael Toledano learned that the hard way.
By
Caroline Spivack
disaster
Jan. 14, 2022
Twin Parks Tenants Are Stuck in Housing Limbo
“My daughter is petrified and can’t even look at the building without crying.”
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
Jan. 13, 2022
AOC Is a YIMBY Now
And she wants to flood local, state, and federal campaigns with pro-housing candidates.
By
Diana Budds
election 2022
Jan. 7, 2022
Vax Daddy Is Totally Serious About Housing
Huge Ma is challenging a 37-year incumbent to represent Queens in the Assembly.
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
Dec. 17, 2021
Congratulations, Jason Korn! You’re No Longer the City’s Worst Landlord
But the apartments are still pretty terrible.
By
Caroline Spivack
developing
Dec. 14, 2021
A Family of Three Making $42,000 Will Be Able to Live in Soho
The neighborhood rezoning, expected to pass Wednesday, will prioritize affordability.
By
Caroline Spivack
architecture
Oct. 29, 2021
Yes, Build the Windowless, Bathroomless Dorm in My Backyard
Sure, let the dilettante billionaire have a crack at it.
By
Choire Sicha
housing
Oct. 27, 2021
There Are 30,000 Basement Apartments the City Doesn’t Know About
More than 5,000 are in East New York.
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
Oct. 18, 2021
Should Landlords Be Required to Pay for Your Internet?
A new bill promises to not pass the cost on to renters.
By
Caroline Spivack
assessment
Oct. 15, 2021
Can Eric Adams Really Turn 25,000 Hotel Rooms Into Affordable Housing?
Even after all the past year’s closures, that’s a lot of real estate.
By
Kevin T. Dugan
podcasts
Oct. 14, 2021
At the Threshold of a Private Utopia
Episode one of
Nice Try! Interior
invites you into the home.
By
Diana Budds
housing
Oct. 1, 2021
New York Went From Worst to Best At Handing Out Rent Relief
There’s still a lot of work to be done, but Governor Kathy Hochul deserves credit for getting us this far.
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
Sept. 2, 2021
Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing Crisis
The most dangerous place to be last night was on the ground floor.
By
Kim Velsey
homelessness
Aug. 4, 2021
The City Is Finally Giving Homeless New Yorkers Enough Money for Rent
The voucher program’s long-overdue boost comes months ahead of schedule.
By
Valeria Ricciulli
housing
July 8, 2021
Apartment Hunting With a Criminal Past Is Nearly Impossible
Three New Yorkers talk about trying to find a place to live after prison.
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
July 2, 2021
25 Men Lock Themselves in Hotel Rooms, Refusing Transfer to Homeless Shelter
“I got very severe asthma, and I don’t wanna be in a dorm setting with 30 homeless men that I don’t know.”
By
Valeria Ricciulli
housing
June 24, 2021
Meet the Frontline Defender of Section 8 Renters
Angela Stovall is the city worker hundreds of New Yorkers turn to when they’re blocked from seeing apartments.
By
Caroline Spivack
housing
June 15, 2021
The Homeless-to-Hotels Program Is Ending, and Nobody’s Ready
Advocates fear mass eviction; hoteliers say their businesses are still in crisis.
By
Kevin T. Dugan
housing
Apr. 27, 2021
L.A. Built a Tiny-House Village for the Homeless. Some Aren’t So Sure About It.
The city’s good intentions come with restrictions and, possibly, an ulterior motive.
By
Alissa Walker
public space
Mar. 26, 2021
Last Night in Echo Park
On the scene as the LAPD evicted an enormous community of unhoused residents from the shore of Echo Park Lake.
By
Alissa Walker
housing
Dec. 16, 2020
The Eco-Yogi Slumlords Are Getting Sued — Again
The city says they made $1.4 million on their illegal Airbnb rentals over four years.
By
Bridget Read
housing
Nov. 17, 2020
The Eco-Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn Are Getting Sued
The City of New York has filed a lawsuit against the couple at the center of an eviction scandal this summer.
By
Bridget Read
the system
Oct. 27, 2020
Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths.
To understand them as imagined by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, you first have to understand that they are actually talking about segregation.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice